Located in Special Collections on the third floor of the College of Charleston’s Addlestone Library, the Jewish Heritage Collection is open to the public. Content includes oral histories, manuscripts, artifacts, photographs, genealogies, memoirs, home movies, and other primary sources. Researchers can access inventories and descriptions of archival materials through the College of Charleston library catalog or the Special Collections homepage. A growing number of collection items and oral histories have been digitized and are available for viewing online at the Lowcountry Digital Library.

One of the strengths of the collection is the Oral History Archives, which consists of over 400 recordings. Click on our Oral History Archives tab to see a comprehensive list of interviewees, panelists, and speakers. Select the Stories tab to read excerpts from transcripts and see how religion and regional culture have accommodated one another and occasionally clashed.

If you have family photos, papers, or artifacts that you want to preserve for posterity, please contact Dale Rosengarten, curator, at 843.953.8028 or rosengartend@cofc.edu.